Chapter 15: Chapter 15 Nature Association
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Nightfall.
On the second floor of Rhein Bookstore, within a dark room.
This place was filled with various kinds of materials, including medicinal herbs, mechanisms, animal corpses, and numerous bottles and jars containing either green viscous solutions or certain special animal organs.
Such as eyeballs, sheep penises, and bull heads—strange products indeed.
It was the very image of an evil scientist's laboratory.
These were all synthesis items Lin Suo had figured out on his own, many of which came from ordinary materials that, after numerous syntheses reaching the limit, possessed exceptionally effective properties.
Lin Suo took a glass jar out of a hidden compartment, inside were incense sticks the length of fingers, considered one of his best research results.
He called them "Five Confusion Barriers."
The dizzying effect was outrageously strong; with his build, one sniff would knock him out in less than a second, and an ordinary person wouldn't wake up for a week after a single whiff.
He had specifically tested it on gang members in the Nearshore District (slums), nearly starving someone to death.
Wizards specialize in spiritual power and magic power.
Their physical bodies are not strong. (Usually)
But Lin Suo guessed their resistance to the Five Confusion Barriers wouldn't be low, as the saying goes: if quality isn't enough, quantity will do.
After removing all of it.
He inserted them in sequence into the smoke tubes hidden in his sleeves, which were also specially designed to hold his failed product, a pinch of black gunpowder.
As a modern person with the Power of Synthesis.
Although he didn't understand the principles, his initial idea was to synthesize a gun, but the first batch of gunpowder was a complete failure, not achieving the expected power.
Firearms thus became nonsense.
But the failed black gunpowder could easily be ignited with a flint and could still play an enormous role combined with the Five Confusion Barriers incense.
He adjusted the triggering mechanism.
Lin Suo sat back at the desk, holding a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, tinkering with them using tools.
The next day.
Just finished making breakfast, brought it downstairs, ready to eat.
Valia came bounding over from next door, bent down to look at him sitting on the sofa, smiling cheerfully.
"Rhein, what are you eating that smells so delicious?"
Lin Suo rolled his eyes, please add 'sir,' we aren't familiar.
"Fried eggs! If you want some..."
"Sure, yes."
Valia, making herself at home, sat down and bit into it from the porcelain plate.
Lin Suo's mouth twitched.
"Miss Valia, strictly speaking, eggs are also a type of meat."
It is well known that Elves revere nature and eat only vegetarian; it's not that they can't eat meat, but after their bodies adapt to vegetarian food, eating meat can easily make them queasy...
"I was about to say, if you want, I can prepare a vegetarian dish for you."
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Lin Suo shrugged.
Valia's face paled immediately, psychologically affected.
She dumped Lin Suo's food like trash, clutching her throat in disgust, not stopping until she had vomited out the eggs she had swallowed.
Lin Suo: "... (I haven't even eaten yet! (*｀へ´*))"
Stayed away from the trash can.
Sighed helplessly.
He could only take out a piece of jerky from the storage cabinet to nibble on; as expected, he didn't have time to make another breakfast.
After Valia collected herself, with a blush on her face, she apologized and stated her purpose.
"Mr. Rhein, the Nature Association would like to see you; they have a test for you, and if you pass, translating Ancient Elf Language for them and the official wizard-level Meditation Method should be no problem."
"Got it, let's go."
After a few bites of jerky and a cup of water,
The two set out together.
The Nature Association is an ethnic organization created by elves living among humans, with influence spanning the entire Padolon Continent, and Koster, as a well-known commercial port city,
necessarily has a branch.
Lin Suo does not know much about this organization but is prepared for the possibility that translating might unearth earth-shattering secrets resulting in murder to silence him.
The core idea of this organization is nothing more than environmental protection, advocating symbiosis with nature, and they are currently diligently teaching other races not to overhunt or destroy the environment.
It's natural for elves who love peace and nature to propose this concept.
But individuals vary.
On the blue planet, there are environmental groups that seek personal gains under the guise of protection.
There are also various foundations named after charity, whose ultimate goal is always to amass wealth.
He believes that such institutions and organizations aren't initially like this; there are a few good ones among them, and one shouldn't condemn the many for the actions of a few.
But if it is related to one's own life,
Lin Suo would rather assume the worst in people, as that helps him live comfortably and well.
The Koster branch of the Nature Association is located in the Mixed Blood District, bustling with people coming and going.
The entire building looks like a giant tree without a crown or roots, standing straight at the edge of the street, with a sign hanging.
It is about five fathoms tall, very spectacular.
The deeper inside, the busier it gets, and the more at ease Lin Suo feels.
A crowd indicates a guarantee of life safety; after all, he is a person from "Dan Dong," and even as a commoner in the Dan Dong Empire, he is a person of status.
The death of one would catch the city hall's attention.
There is precedent for this.
As commerce in the Dan Dong Empire thrives, the environment becomes more open, and many different races enter the territory for various purposes.
In the past, many of these races thought the people of Dan Dong were weak and acted recklessly, plundering the wealth of the Dan Dong people.
Mostly, it was the Beastmen.
Then they were gone, now on Padolon Continent there are only Half-Beasts and enslaved Beastmen, with purebreds branded on their faces, their entire race trampled into the mud.
Never able to cause a ripple again.
Half-Beasts are different; they have some characteristics of beasts, but originated from another continent, unlike the beasts of Padolon, although they also faced suppression.
However, they have since recovered, at least openly their status is normal.
The criminal law of the Dan Dong Empire is extremely stringent.
Yet it is unusually lenient towards its own people, with a nobility atonement law, where a fine can clear minor offenses.
This law does not apply if the party involved is another Dan Dong noble or a Dan Dong citizen.
It's practically designed to oppress foreigners.
Too cruel.
He likes it.
Once he obtains the meditation method, his next plan is to buy a title for protection; Lin Suo does not intend to oppress others, but he also does not want to be oppressed.
Having a title for self-protection would be very convenient.
Following Valia into the Nature Association.
All the way to the fourth floor, they sat down in a classical room, she went to fetch someone, letting Lin Suo stay alone for a while.
Before long,
An old elf elder with white hair and a scruffy beard, leaning on a cane, walked in.
Speaking to Valia in Ancient Elf Language,
"Little Valia, is this the language master you found? A young and handsome human?"
"Grandfather Deerrhorn, Mr. Rhein speaks Ancient Elf Language even more standardly than me, please let him try."
"How can this be, he's too young, and linguistics are obscure and hard to understand, don't tell me..."
Seeing the situation developing in a strange direction,
Lin Suo quickly stood up.